ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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We would like to offer special thanks to Joan Feinberg, Co-president of Macmillan Higher Education, and Denise Wydra, President of Bedford/St. Martin’s, for convening the meeting that gave birth to this project, and for seeing it all the way through to completion. Publisher for Communication Erika Gutierrez has done a marvelous job working with us and sharing ideas for Speak Up, while Director of Development Erica Appel has been superb in keeping the project on track. Shepherding any textbook from manuscript to production is a daunting task, even more so when working with a brand-new idea that creates new challenges. We appreciate their enthusiasm and professionalism, which enabled us to complete the project on time.

We also owe a particular debt of gratitude to Senior Executive Editor Simon Glick, who has been with us on this project from the outset. Simon’s work on Speak Up transcends any job description for an

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executive editor. Although our names may be on the cover, Simon’s fingerprints are on every page. He is without peer as an editor.

It was also an absolute pleasure to continue our collaboration with professional artist Peter Arkle. Peter’s ability to depict our ideas in pictures is simply amazing; his illustrations are a large part of what makes this text provocative, fun, and engaging.

For the third edition of Speak Up, we were very pleased to have Julia Bartz join the team as our Senior Editor. Julia showed an amazing ability to jump in to this project in the middle of revisions and quickly acclimate to the unique challenges of an illustrated book. She contributed many excellent ideas for updates and revisions, along with masterful work on line-by-line rewrites. Julia worked incredibly hard to keep our work on schedule. Editorial Assistant Catherine Burgess also deserves a huge round of thanks for her focus, enthusiasm, and attention to detail. We are also most grateful for Editor Mae Klinger’s hard work at the outset on revising this book. She showed an uncanny ability to synthesize reviewers’ comments and offer valuable suggestions for our new edition.

Designer Jerilyn Bockorick and her team at Nesbitt Graphics did a wonderful job with the design and layout of the book, consistently using their visual and bookmaking skills to blend illustrations and text to achieve truly inspired results. This book will always owe a debt of gratitude to Art Director Lucy Krikorian, whose work with the original design of the book was instrumental in creating a truly illustrated speech text.

We are very thankful to the incredible professionals who guided the production of Speak Up: Sue Brown, Director of Production; Valerie Zaborski, Associate Production Director of Manufacturing, Custom, and Media Distribution; and Elise Kaiser, Associate Director of Editorial Production. Managing Editor Shuli Traub made sure that all the diverse efforts needed to create this book were completed on time. Senior Project Editor Peter Jacoby expertly guided the process from manuscript through pages, delivering page proofs with great efficiency and helping us with the tricky business of making each page look its best. Picking up where Peter left off, Senior Production Supervisor Jennifer Peterson put in the hard and careful work needed to turn hundreds of manuscript pages with more than five hundred illustrations into a finished product, as did Linda Winters and Kalina

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Ingham, who lined up permissions for the book’s many sample speeches and speech excerpts.

Beyond producing the book itself, we have been fortunate to work with a crackerjack marketing team. We love working with Marketing Manager Stacey Propps, along with Sally Constable, who helped develop our marketing and sales message.

We want to thank Nancy Fraleigh of Fresno City College for her expert work revising the Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test Bank for our third edition. She built upon the strong foundation created by Steve Vrooman of Texas Lutheran University and Chrys Egan of Salisbury University, who authored the instructor materials for the first edition. Many thanks also to Bruce Sherwin and Linda DeMasi of Publishers Solutions for all their help with the ancillary program.

We are also grateful to the many reviewers and class testers who gave us feedback on Speak Up and helped us make it even better. The input of our colleagues in the public speaking profession played a central role in our decisions for revising the second edition, and they offered both validation for what was working and constructive suggestions for improvement. For the third edition, we would like to thank Dr. Raymond Bell, Calhoun Community College; Gail Benchener, Philadelphia Biblical University; Mardia Bishop, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign; Graham Bodie, Louisiana State University; Carlotta Campbell, College of Alameda; Linda Carvalho Cooley, Reedley College; Farren Clark, Nicholls State University; Bill Cue, Metropolitan Community College–Longview; Margaret Fitch-Hauser, Auburn University; Melissa Fox, Volunteer State Community College; Dr. Donna Halper, Lesley University; Scott Haywood, Northern Oklahoma College; Anne Helms, Alamance Community College; Allison Horrell, Spartanburg Community College; Laura Janusik, Rockhurst University; Dr. Russell Kahn, SUNY IT–Utica/Rome; Dr. Patricia Kennedy, East Stroudsburg University; Dr. Susan Kilgard, Anne Arundel Community College; Dr. Susan Kline, Ohio State University; Dr. Nick Linardopoulos, Rutgers; Jodie Mandel, College of Southern Nevada; Teresa Massimo, Ohlone College; Chandra Massner, University of Pikeville; Dr. Marjorie Nadler, Miami University; Paul Oren, Valparaiso University; Dr. Ray Ozley, University of Montevallo; Susan Pahlau, Colorado Christian University; Justin Parmett, University of Minnesota;

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Simon Provan, University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan; Pamela Pruitt, Rutgers; John Rocke, Los Angeles Mission College; Shanna Slavings, Missouri Southern State University; Bob Stokem, Spartanburg Community College; Katherine Taylor, University of Louisville; Evanthea Vlahakis, University of Massachusetts–Lowell; and Jon Williams, Niagara County Community College.

We would like to thank our own speech teachers and forensics coaches for their contributions to our development as public speakers and teachers. We thank our faculty colleagues for their support and understanding as we balance teaching, writing, and other academic responsibilities. We are grateful for the many students and forensics team members who have worked with us to develop and present speeches over the past quarter century, and we hope that our book will help a new generation of students gain public speaking skills and confidence.

Our friendship began at the 1977 Governor’s Cup Speech and Debate Tournament in Sacramento, California. This is our seventh major book project, and it continues to be both a privilege and a pleasure to write together. Our families have been exceptional at supporting our work and serving as sounding boards for ideas. Our kids—Douglas, Helen, Nate, and Whitney—are away from home at college and work, but we continue to value their strategic input as we make revisions. For thirty-plus years our wives, Kirsten and Nancy, have encouraged and supported our writing and contributed valuable ideas to our projects. Needless to say, their love and patience have sustained us through all our collaborations. We appreciate the opportunity to continue to share ideas and write with each other—something we will do long after Speak Up is (hopefully) in its tenth edition.